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Prospects for the UK Economy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

Simon Kirby ,
Ray Barrell  and
Nathan Foley-Fisher
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Abstract

We expect the economy to contract by 4.4 per cent this year, a prospect which has scarcely changed since our April forecast. Our early estimate suggests that output was stable in the third quarter of this year, after a fall of 0.6 per cent in the second quarter (figure 1). Measured on an annual basis the contraction is only slightly less bad than the 4.6 per cent recorded in 1931.

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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 210 , October 2009 , pp. 39 - 57
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Copyright © 2009 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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